Collar-button.



T. 1. NELIS.

COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28. I916.

1 40,476. Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oi mcn THOMAS J. N ELIS, OF FRANKFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

Application filed December 28, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS citizen of the United States, Frankford, in the county of and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved collar button with the particular purpose of lessening the difiiculty experienced by the user in drawing a tie through a collar.

Another object is to make a button of this character of the simplest possible construction, and as readily inserted through the holes of a stiff collar as any of these buttons heretofore appearing on the market.

Still another object is to provide a collar button, having a shank with means thereon operative to lessen the resistance offered by the usual button to the free passage of a tie thereby, said means being of an antifrictional nature.

Further objects and advantages of the invention are fully described in the following specification, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a fragmentary View of the improved device shown in use with a collar and shirt band; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the button; Fig. 3 is a vertical central transverse section of the same; Fig. f is a fragmentary side elevation of a modified form of the device.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3 of the drawings, a collar button is provided having a shank l, in turn provided upon one side with the usual base 2, and preferably cylindrically recessed at 3 to receive revolubly a cylindrical member 4, having its ends 5 beveled, said member projecting radially outwardly through an aperture 6 in one side of said shank.

The end of the button opposite to the base is provided with a well-known form of hinged head 7, adapted to be oscillated into a position parallel with the longitudinal axis of the shank, to more readily enter the button-hole 8 of a collar 9, after having been J. Nnms, a residing at Philadelphia Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18,- 191 7.

Serial No. 139,271.

passed through the button-hole 10 of the facing 11 of a shirt-band l2.

lVhen in operative position as shown in Fig. l, aneck-tie 13, having been first inserted between the inner and outer sides of the said collar, rests upon the exposed surface of the cylindrical member a, and may be drawn thereover with no perceptible re sistance offered by the collar button, since the said member revolves with the tie.

As a modification of the foregoing device, that shown in Fig. 4 may be'used. The same comprises a button having a shank l l,provided with the usual base 15 and hinged head 16, said shank also being reduced or cut away throughout a portion 16 of its length, to provide a bearing surface for a cylindrical member-17 operative exactly and for the purpose hereinbefore described, the same being preferably beveled at its ends 18, to prevent it from wearing the fabric of the tie, .and to lessen any possible friction arising from a contact of it with the adjacent side of the collar.

The invention in its broad conception has been described with two forms in which it may be embodied, but the scope of the same is intended to anticipate all constructions falling within the breadth of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is l. A button having a shank connecting its head and base, and an anti-frictional member carried thereby.

2. A button having a shank connecting its head and base, and an anti-frictional member carried directly by said shank.

3. A button having a shank connecting its head and base, and a cylindrical member revolubly carried thereby, and operative to lessen the friction between said button and a tie.

4. A button having a shank, and a cylindrical member revolubly carried thereby, the edges of said member being beveled.

5. A button having a shank provided with a recess, and a cylindrical member rotatably mounted therein.

6. A button having a shank provided with a cut-out portion, and a cylindrical member a cut-out portion, and an anti-frictional rotatably mounted therein and conforming member rotatably mounted therein. substantially to said out-out portion. 10 7. A button having a shank provided with In testimony whereof I have afiixed my 5 a cut-out portion, and a cylindrical member signature.

rotatably mounted therein.

8. A button having a shank provided With THOMAS J. NELIS.

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